Hemp

The following text is an excerpt from the excellent book “Cancer Step Out of the Box” by Ty Bollinger. Reproduced here, with his kind permission.

A 1938 article from Popular Mechanics stated that there are more than 25,000 uses for hemp … from food, paint and fuel to clothing and construction materials. There are even hemp fibers in your Lipton® tea bags. And several cars made today contain hemp. One acre of hemp can produce as much raw fiber as 10 acres of trees. Pulping hemp for paper would produce a stronger paper that lasts incredibly long and doesn’t yellow with age. Hemp oil (derived from hemp seeds) has long been recognized as one of the most versatile and beneficial substances known to man.

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Hemp

A 1938 article from Popular Mechanics stated that there are more than 25,000 uses for hemp … from food, paint and fuel to clothing and construction materials. There are even hemp fibers in your Lipton® tea bags. And several cars made today contain hemp. One acre of hemp can produce as much raw fiber as 10 acres of trees. Pulping hemp for paper would produce a stronger paper that lasts incredibly long and doesn’t yellow with age. Hemp oil (derived from hemp seeds) has long been recognized as one of the most versatile and beneficial substances known to man.

Back in the early days of America’s founding, hemp was a commonly grown and used resource. America’s hemp heritage includes the following facts:

Early laws in some American colonies actually required farmers to grow hemp, and they could go to jail for refusing to grow it! According to their diaries, many of our early presidents, including George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, grew hemp.

The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the USA were both drafted on hemp paper.

Abraham Lincoln used hemp seed oil to fuel the lamps in his home.

Henry Ford built an experimental car body out of hemp fiber, which is 10 times stronger than steel. The first Model-T was actually built to run on hemp gasoline. ( Popular Mechanics , 1941)

Hemp is considered to be a superfood (like spirulina and chlorella) due to its high essential fatty acid content and the unique ratio of omega-3 to omega-6, specifically gamma linolenic acid (GLA). Hemp oil contains up to 5% of pure GLA, a much higher concentration than any other plant. For millennia, hemp has been used in medicinal teas and tonics because of its healing properties. Hemp not only relieves pain and helps with the appetites of cancer patients; it also has been shown to have curative properties.

The chemicals in hemp which are responsible for many of the medical benefits are called “cannabinoids.” The most notable cannabinoid is “Delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol” but most folks call it “THC.” Before I go any further, let me explain the difference between the terms “hemp” and “marijuana” and “cannabis.” The word “hemp” is English for a number of varieties of the cannabis plant, particularly the varieties like “industrial hemp” that were bred over time for industrial uses such as fuel, fiber, paper, seed, food, oil, etc. The term “marijuana” is of Spanish derivation, and was primarily used to describe varieties of cannabis that were more com“monly bred over time for medicinal and recreational purposes (like cannabis indica and cannabis sativa ).

Two cannabinoids are preeminent in cannabis – 1) THC, the psychoactive ingredient, and 2) CBD, which is an anti-psychoactive ingredient. “Marijuana” (which is actually a slang term to make it sound more “sinister”) is high in the psychoactive cannabinoid, THC, and low in the anti-psychoactive cannabinoid, CBD. The reverse is true for industrial hemp, which has minimal THC and a much higher percentage of CBD. I prefer to use the terms “hemp” or “cannabis” for all varietals of the cannabis plant. Using the term “marijuana” is actually acquiescing to the pejorative intentions of the Medical Mafia that wants to ban this miracle plant … not miracle “drug” … miracle plant . You see, “marijuana” was one of the battle line words that marked the difference between “straights” and “stoners” … between “Feds” and “heads.

As late as the 1930s in the USA, medicinal hemp tinctures with THC were available in most pharmacies. About that same time (the late 1930s), William Randolph Hearst and the Hearst Paper Manufacturing Division of Kimberly Clark owned millions of acres of timberland. The Hearst Company, which supplied most of the paper products in the USA and also owned most of the newspapers, stood to lose billions because of the hemp industry. In 1937, Dupont patented the processes to make plastics from oil and coal. Dupont’s Annual Report urged stockholders to invest in its new petrochemical division. Synthetics such as plastics, nylon, and rayon could now be made from oil. Natural hemp industrialization would have ruined over 80% of Dupont’s business.

Andrew Mellon became President Hoover’s Secretary of the Treasury and Dupont’s primary investor. He appointed his future nephew-in-law (Harry J. Anslinger) to head the Federal Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs. Secret meetings were held by these financial tycoons. Hemp was declared “dangerous” and a threat to their billion dollar enterprises. For their dynasties to remain intact, hemp had to go. They took an obscure Mexican slang word (“marijuana”) and pushed it into the consciousness of America. A media blitz of “yellow journalism” raged in the 1920s and 1930s; Hearst’s newspapers ran stories emphasizing the horrors of “marijuana.” Readers were led to believe that it was responsible for car accidents, loose morality, and countless acts of violence, incurable insanity, and vicious murders. Films like “Reefer Madness” and “Marihuana: The Devil’s Weed” were propaganda designed by these industrialists to create an enemy. Their purpose was to gain public support so that anti-marijuana laws could be passed. http://www.tpuc.org/content/marijuana-conspiracy

In the 1930s, people were very naïve, even to the point of ignorance. The masses were “sheeple” waiting to be led by the few in power. They did not challenge authority. Much like the sheeple today, if the news was in print or on the radio, they believed it had to be true. So, despite the fact that the brainwashing campaign was based on total lies, hemp was outlawed in the late 1930s. Hemp was too much of a threat to the paper industry and the oil industry. Plus, Big Pharma didn’t like the non-toxic and inexpensive medicinal applications! Hemp was plentiful and economical, and to make matters worse for the Medical Mafia, it didn’t cause any additional medical conditions that required prescriptions for more of their toxic poisons.

The medical evidence for the effectiveness of THC at treating cancer and also reducing pain is overwhelming. We have known this since 1974 when the first experiment documenting marijuana’s anti-tumor effects took place at the Medical College of Virginia at the behest of the U.S. government and the National Institute of Health (NIH). The purpose of the study was to show that marijuana damages the immune system and causes cancer. However, the study found instead that THC slowed the growth of three kinds of cancer in mice ( lung and breast cancer, and a virus-induced leukemia ). OOPS! We can’t have that information made public, can we? So, the DEA quickly shut down the Virginia study and all further research on the anti-cancer effects of hemp, even though research proved that THC cures cancer !!

In 2000, researchers in Madrid learned that the THC in hemp inhibits the spread of brain cancer through selectively inducing programmed cell death ( apoptosis ) in brain tumor cells without negatively impacting surrounding healthy cells. They were able to destroy incurable brain tumors in rats by injecting them with THC.

But sadly, most Americans don’t know anything about the Madrid discovery, since virtually no major US newspapers carried the story.

A 2007 Harvard Medical School study showed that the THC in hemp decreases lung cancer tumors by 50% and significantly reduces the ability of the cancer to metastasize (spread). “ The beauty of this study is that we are showing that a substance of abuse, if used prudently, may offer a new road to therapy against lung cancer ,” said Anju Preet, Ph.D., a researcher at the Division of Experimental Medicine. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/04/070417193338.htm

“Other researchers have also shown that THC is an effective treatment for Hodgkin’s disease and Kaposi’s Sarcoma. A recent study out of Thailand demonstrated that THC can also fight bile duct cancer, which is rare and deadly. As a matter of fact, the International Medical Verities Association includes hemp oil on its cancer protocol. Studies have also shown that cannabinoids (and endocannabinoids) inhibit the proliferation of other various cancers, including:

Rick Simpson successfully treated his terminal cancer with hemp oil, and since then has been leading the way to promote hemp oil as a viable cancer treatment. Ironically, on November 25 th , 2009, one day before he was crowned the “Freedom Fighter of the Year 2009” at the Cannabis Cup in Amsterdam, Simpson received word that he had been raided again by the RCMP in Canada. Simpson has been heavily persecuted for his stance on medicinal marijuana and for his efforts to help folks cure their cancer with hemp oil.

“Folks, I definitely believe that we are living in the matrix! Almost every natural substance that God created (such as hemp, apricot seeds, and sunlight) is considered to be “dangerous” while toxic drugs being pushed by Big Pharma are considered to be safe! It is legal for doctors to attack people with their poisons but you can go to jail for trying to save yourself or a loved one from cancer with the oil of a simple garden weed or the seed of a simple fruit.”

Two drugs which are legal in this country (alcohol and tobacco) are known killers. Every year in the USA, tobacco causes 435,000 deaths and alcohol causes 85,000 deaths. ( www.drugwarfacts.org/cms/node/30 ) The same study showed no deaths attributed to use of marijuana. Nevertheless, the US government continues its phony “war on drugs,” which is just as much of a failure as the fraudulent “war on cancer” and the fake “war on terror.” It has been proven that anytime the corrupt government declares a “war” on anything, the problem only gets much worse. Who’s kidding who?

On March 29, 2001, the San Antonio Current printed a story by Raymond Cushing titled, “ Pot Shrinks Tumors – Government Knew in ‘74 ” which detailed government and media suppression of news about marijuana cancer benefits. Cushing noted in his article that it was hard to believe that the knowledge that cannabis can be used to fight cancer has been suppressed for almost thirty years and aptly concluded his article by saying: “ Millions of people have died horrible deaths and in many cases, families exhausted their savings on dangerous, toxic and expensive drugs. Now we are just beginning to realize that while marijuana has never killed anyone, marijuana prohibition has killed millions .

The science for the medicinal use of hemp is overwhelming. It should be produced and distributed to each and every cancer patient that needs it. But the reality is that we live in a corrupt world run by the Medical Mafia who would rather make money while cancer patients die cruel deaths than give them access to a non-toxic, effective, natural treatment like hemp. If you want to obtain the highest quality hemp oil, I recommend that you visit http://hempmedspx.com/ and check out the Real Scientific Hemp Oil (RSHO) TM

Some of the information in this section was taken, with permission, from an article entitled “The Marijuana Conspiracy” written by Doug Yurchey published in the March-April 2009 issue of The Dot Connector Magazine and can be found at www.thedotconnector.org/mag/